We're making our way north during the final water sampling run of the season. Here is "The Shadow" in New York Harbor – our patrol boat departing Erie Basin in Red Hook, Brooklyn, on Monday.
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This past Saturday, Riverkeeper all-star Ambassador and Junior Council member, John Koblinsky, organized a cleanup of East River Park in Manhattan. With the help of volunteers from the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation, and fellow Junior Council members, the team removed more than a dozen bags […]
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In May, Riverkeeper responded to a citizen watchdog complaint about an apparent sewage leak in the Fonteynkill, a tributary of the Casperkill in Poughkeepsie. The students and faculty of Vassar College know the Fonteynkill, as it forms Vassar Lake west of the main campus.
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Riverkeeper boat captain, John Lipscomb speaks with the FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellows, and Exective Director Priscilla Cohen about the Riverkeeper Boat and Water Quality Programs
Best put by boat captain John Lipscomb, "I don't think we've ever had so many people aboard who are all doing good for society and the environment in some way."
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Last week Riverkeeper submitted Enterococcus data collected in partnership with community scientists to NYS DEC’s Division of Water, as part of the state’s biennial statewide waterbody assessment process. In most of the places we monitor, our data is the sole publicly available source of fecal […]
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Riverkeeper Staff Attorney Abigail Jones delivered the following remarks during today’s “Defend the Hudson” protest in Saratoga Springs, organized by the Campaign for a Cleaner Hudson. The damage that GE inflicted on New Yorkers by dumping PCBs into the river for decades has held back […]
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The results of water quality sampling during Riverkeeper’s September Hudson River patrol are now available at the Water Quality section at riverkeeper.org. The water quality monitoring portion of this September’s patrol took place during wet weather. At least an inch of rain fell in the […]
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The Sewage Pollution Right to Know Law, and related disclosure efforts, have revealed to the public the state of wastewater infrastructure. Below are reports made public so far today for discharges to the Hudson River Watershed. The Department of Environmental Conservation estimated the need for […]
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Early this morning in Kingston the visibility was only a few hundred yards. Very beautiful. Sea Smoke is a surface fog caused when cold air meets relatively warmer water. It burned off after sunrise.
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On Wednesday, Sept. 23, we were running north from Ossining to Kingston and met a family of Swans off Peekskill at Jones Point. I know these birds are controversial but just suspend that for a minute and look how magnificent they are. This family has […]
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